Cumberlander Refuse Quotes & Sayings

In the dull twilight of the winter afternoon she came to the end of a long road which had begun the night Atlanta fell. She had set her feet upon that road a spoiled, selfish and untried girl, full of youth, warm of emotion, easily bewildered by life. Now, at the end of the road, there was nothing left of that girl. Hunger and hard labor, fear and constant strain, the terrors of war and the terrors of Reconstruction had taken away all warmth and youth and softness. About the core of her being, a shell of hardness had formed and, little by little, layer by layer, the shell had thickened during the endless months. — Margaret Mitchell

Then and only then will you realize that your greatest enemy isn't what you fight but what you fear. — Virginia Boecker

I used to think I loved it. But now I realize that it's just dependency. — Jim Butcher

Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School. — Maya Angelou

Yeah, I know. It's one of my plans. It'll go all Dog Day Afternoon somewhere along the line. But a girl can dream, can't she? — Gini Koch

The moment you try so hard to forget becomes your sharpest memory.

-Tara — Amita Trasi

After all, as we're constantly reminded, the Internet has unleashed all sorts of creative vision and collaborative ingenuity. What it has really brought about is a kind of bizarre inversion of ends and means, where creativity is marshaled to the service of administration rather than the other way around. — David Graeber

We have one mind, and it contains both thought and feeling. Passion and reason combine as one in our mind. Only when we are at war with ourselves do they diverge, but this is pathology not a healthy state. They are both parts of the whole, each a subsystem embedded in an integrated, larger system. There is nothing more human than our reason and our emotions. We are probably the most emotional creature on the earth as a result of the complexity and subtlety of our thought, our mind's and body's role in adaptation, and our dependency on other people, all of which are relevant to survival and how we flourish as individuals and a species. — Richard S. Lazarus

You're my paradise for now." ~Gage — Shanora Williams

Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch. — Novalis

Angela Merkel tries to make a career as a Bush's Suppository. — Volker Pispers

To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed. — Umar

He should be named Lord Simpleton," Olivia said, frankly. Pippa chuckled. "Stop. He's nice enough. He likes dogs." She looked to Penelope. "As does Tommy." "This is what we've come to? Choosing our potential husbands because they like dogs?" Olivia asked. — Sarah MacLean

In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also. — Friedrich Holderlin